Part VII of SWC Operation Report

KLAREN, DR. FRIEDRICH

     Dr. Friedrich Klaren was presented to Ron Furey and Richard
 Eaton by Wolfgang Juchem (see separate entry) as an example of
 his support among average German citizens.  Klaren tells an eye-
 opening story about his wartime past.  He says he was assigned by
 his company to spend two days at the Mauthausen concentration
 camp (near Linz, Austria) where he was involved in supervising
 inmates who worked in the camp's quarries.  He claims that camp
 officials took extra measures to safeguard the health of quarry
 workers by outfitting them with devices to filter out mining dust
 as they breathed.  After the war, Dr. Klaren (doctorate is in
 business administration) continued his career in quarry
 operations.

     Klaren has high regard for Juchem and is especially
 impressed with his abilities as an orator.  He says he has
 attended meetings where groups of one hundred or more turned out
 to hear Juchem.  Furthermore, Klaren feels that Juchem is
 precisely the kind of candidate who will find support in
 veterans' organizations.


KLAUS, EWALD

     Ewald Klaus is a former member of the SS and, in fact
 admitted to having taken part in the notorious Malmedy massacre
 of American soldiers during the Battle of the Ardennes.  Klaus
 served as a translator for Ron Furey's discussion with Frank
 Rennicke (see separate entry).  Klaus Ewald, a minor player in
 the neo-Nazi movement, is an open Holocaust denier and booster of
 the Viking Youth.


KOEBERICH, WILHELM

     Wilhelm Koeberich is also known by the code name "Kampfhahn"
 (fighting cock).  Koeberich is the elder statesman of the neo-
 Nazi movement.  During the Hitler era, Koeberich was sent to the
 Adolf Hitler School as a child prodigy.  "Fighting cock" is a
 scrawny, fragile-looking individual and by appearance does not
 "look the part."  Yet he is bright and quite crafty.  He collects
 and distributes monies to the various neo-Nazi groups and is
 adaptable at playing more than one side of the fence at a time.

     There are two competing attempts to overthrow the current
 Republikaner leadership and take the party even further to the
 right (see entries for Thrun and Juchem).  Koeberich is involved
 in both of them and neither group knows of the other!

     Koeberich is a virulent antisemite, Holocaust denier, and
 admirer of Adolf Hitler.  Koeberich was secretly filmed by the
 CBS crew which accompanied Ron Furey.


KOPPS, REINHOLD (AKA JUAN MALER)

     According to Roy Godenau (see separate entry) Reinhold Kopps
 was an intelligence officer serving with the Abwehr (German
 military intelligence) in Albania, where he was engaged in
 "cleaning out" partisans.  After the war, Kopps worked out of the
 Vatican with the "ratline" before making good his own escape to
 South America.  Kopps took a list of Abwehr officers stationed
 throughout the world with him.

     Kopps now lives as Juan Maler in the town of San Carlos de
 Bariloche near the Chilean border.

     Kopps/Maler is a publisher of anti-masonic and antisemitic
 materials who employs Godenau as a traveling salesman for his
 literature.  Godenau has also admitted to "moving" money for
 Kopps, as well as serving as his go-between with other members of
 the Nazi movement in 52 countries.

     During the first week of April, 1993, S.W.C. researcher,
 Richard Eaton, flew to Argentina where he met with Kopps on three
 occasions.  During one of these meetings, Kopps provided Eaton
 with a letter of introduction to a contact in Luxembourg who
 could be trusted to funnel large sums of money to various neo-
 Nazi groups in Germany.

     Interestingly, Kopps also recommended Mark Weber (see entry)
 to    Mr. Eaton for a separate project.



KRAUSE, KARL WILHELM

     As Hitler's personal valet and bodyguard, Karl Wilhelm
 Krause is viewed a major icon of the neo-Nazi movement.  During
 his service with Hitler, Krause stuck so close to his boss that
 the Fuehrer nicknamed him his "shadow."  Interviewed by Ron Furey
 and Richard Eaton, Krause offered insights into Hitler's
 personality - all of them positive.

End of Part VII